Catch & Release: Pros and Cons

In the areas we hunt the ranchers want the hogs gone , so we remove everything we catch , I would love to release hogs because regardless of what the department of ag says with my dogs we can extinct a place quick and then not have a place that has hogs on it to hunt and I'm talking like 12 miles by 12 miles , been there done it , but if we got caught by per say land owner releasing we would loose giant ranches to hunt and in Oklahoma spots this big are rare so we are on extermination mode , on the other hand on catch and release , I had a friend who caught a boar at a young age and released , he caught again the next yr and released , met the same hog a yr or two later and it cut the tendon in his up and coming bay dogs leg and killed his CD AND THE HOG ESCAPED , the following yr the corn came up and the hogs tracks returned also , my friend new I had Jorge the terminator and called me , I new the story on the boar and said I'm coming , I took a hand and headed his way , he was hurt so he stayed in the buggy and I worked this square mile corn field , we found him in the center backed up to a cage that protected the irrigation motor , he was a bad boy he also new the game , the baddest hog I've seen , he wanted the dogs and me , he worked around three sides of that cage trashing Jorge and Gretchen , they did everything they could to hang on , every time I went for a leg he would charge me , I whipped out my pistol and ran at him and shot him between the eyes and as soon as he fell I put a couple of courtesy shots in there for good measure , it was 911 to the vet , 550 I spent on my CDs , my friend spent a grand the yr before and then he mounted this bad boy in his place of business , this hog cost us 2000 bucks by the time we killed it , so I guess the moral of the story is they learn the game and will sure cost you the bank in the catch and release program at some point